Alkilu was established in 2013 with an aim to develop innovative consumer OLED lighting products, and the company unveiled their low cost OLED products at CES 2014 , promising to release the first panels in April or May 2014. Those OLEDs aren’t shipping yet, the company announced that they now accept pre-orders for some of the devices. Alkilu also announced several new products, including the Trio OLED Light, shown above. This $59.95 lamp use a single 4×4 inch OLED panel made by LG Chem that features a color temperature of 3000K and a lifetime (LT70) of 20,000 hours. The company stated before that they are in talks with several OLED producers, and now we know that LG Chem is one of them. LG will co-market the Trio OLED Light with Alkilu. Read more about Alkilu now accepts pre-orders for low-cost OLED lamps, lists LG Chem as partner

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Leading simulation and measurement tool provider Fluxim recently released a new version of its large-area OLED simulation software LAOSS. The new version adds a simulation capability for temperature estimation and cross-coupling the temperature generated by the device operation itself (in the organic stack and the electrodes) and the changes in device operation due to this increased temperature (leading again to different heat generation and so on). LAOSS is a software tool that simulates large area semiconductor devices (OLED and PV), taking into account the voltage drop in the electrodes due to important resistive effects when the size of the device increases. LAOSS facilitates electrode layout optimization and material choice, which can save substantial time and resources. Both OLED lighting panel design and study of AMOLED pixel cross-talk is just a click away. Read more about Fluxim releases a new version of its large-area OLED simulation software, OLED-Info readers get a 20% discount

In March 2016 the EU launched the PI-SCALE with an aim to create a European-wide pilot line which will enable companies of all sizes to quickly and cost effectively test and scale up their flexible OLED lighting concepts and turn them into market ready products. PI-SCALE members recently managed to produce 10-meter long OLED lighting panels . The PI-SCALE project now launched a flexible OLED design competition, calling out designers to propose OLED lighting and signage applications that highlight the special features of OLED technology: foldable, twistable, bendable, conformable, transparency, large area illumination. Read more about The EU PI-SCALE project launches a flexible OLED lighting design competition

In March 2016 the EU launched a new project, called, PI-SCALE , that aims to create a European-wide pilot line which will enable companies of all sizes to quickly and cost effectively test and scale up their flexible OLED lighting concepts and turn them into market ready products. PI-SCALE members started to produce sample panels – and can currently make long films up to 10 meters in size. You can see such sheets (cut to 1.8 meters) in the video above, taken at SID DisplayWeek. Read more about EU's PI-SCALE project can now produce 10 meter long OLED Lighting panels

Audi unveiled its flagship luxuries sedan, the new Audi A8 – which will go on sale towards the end of 2017 in Germany. This car includes several new technologies – including the first Level 3 assisted driving (which can drive completely autonomously in slow traffic jams). The new A8’s front lighting uses HD Matrix LED headlamps with Audi laser lighting, and the rear lights use OLED lighting. It’s not clear whether the OLED lighting is optional as was the case with Audi’s first OLED car, the 2016 TT RS . The new A8 also includes an OLED display for passengers in the back that can be used to control the car’s infotainment systems. Read more about The new Audi A8 sports OLED rearlights

Taiwan’s organic chemicals maker Luminescence Technology ( Lumtec ) launched a new company called Lumlight to develop and produce OLED Lighting based products. The company’s first product is the OLED EyeCare Lamp, which uses an OLED panel to provide a healthy light source. Lumlight launched a crowdfunding campaign with an aim to raise $120,000 HKD (about $15,000 USD). Read more about Lumlight launches a crowdfunding campaign for its first OLED lighting lamp

Sumitomo Chemical acquired CDT back in 2007 , and since then the Japanese company has been developing it’s P-OLED (polymer-based OLED) materials and technologies. While initially Sumitomo aimed to produce materials for displays, in recent years it has focused mostly on OLED lighting materials and even panel production . A noted exception was Panasonic’s OLED TV development project which used printing technologies and Sumitomo’s P-OLED materials. But Panasonic terminated this project in 2013. We speculated that JOLED, which is based on Panasonic’s technology (and other technologies as well), uses P-OLED materials in its prototypes, but we were not sure. Read more about Sumitomo Chemical starts to promote P-OLED materials and printers for OLED display production

LG Display participated in Milan Design Week 2017 (Euroluce) and demonstrated its latest OLED lamps and panels – and the company also unveiled the largest OLED installation ever – the 30,000 OLED panel “Wall the of the Sun”. LGD now published the video you see below that shows all these exciting new OLED lighting installations and lamps: Read more about LG's new video shows its Euroluce OLED installations and latest OLED lamps

Leading simulation and measurement tool provider Fluxim and OLED-Info have teamed up to offer a 20% discount on Fluxim’s large-area OLED simulation software LAOSS. LAOSS is a software tool that simulates large area semiconductor devices (OLED and PV), taking into account the voltage drop in the electrodes due to important resistive effects when the size of the device increases. LAOSS facilitates electrode layout optimization and material choice, which can save substantial time and resources. Both OLED lighting panel design and study of AMOLED pixel cross-talk is just a click away. Read more about OLED-Info readers get a 20% discount on Fluxim's large-area OLED simulation software

Researchers from the Institute of low temperature and structure research in Wroclaw, Poland, developed a new white light source based on graphene-foam. Graphene does not have a band-gap, but this device uses a continuous-wave laser to excitate the graphene and opens up a bandgap which results in light emission that UV to near-infralight. The researchers say that the light spectrum of this device is similar to the spectrum of the sun which is better than current light sources such as LEDs that offer light spectrum with strong peaks (the main problem is the strong blue light emission in LED lighting ). This design can achieve a high efficiency (over 200 lm/W), high color rendering index (CRI > 99) and a broadband warm white color. The lifetime depends on the laser, which can be over 10,000 hours. Read more about Researchers develop an innovative efficient lighting source based on laser-excitated graphene

OLEDWorks introduced a new OLED lighting panel, the Brite Amber. This panel is free from any blue emission and OLEDWorks sees applications in the healthcare, senior living and residential markets. This upgrade to OLEDWorks’ existing AMber panel features a higher brightness of 2,000 cd/m 2 . The Brite AMber features an efficiency of over 50 lm/W and the lifetime is over 25,000 (but OLEDWOrks does not mention at what brightness level). The panel is 41.5 x 101.6 mm in size (active area 88 x 25 mm). Read more about OLEDWorks introduces its latest OLED panel, the Brite Amber